“Life is not all ha-ha-ha. But I’m in good spirits. I’m an optimistic guy. Nothing has deterred me from my belief that I am going to beat this” — cancer-stricken Michael Douglas in Parade . . . “I have a sort of lip-smacking gratification that I’m still playing in the game. I feel I have more to offer” — Diane Lane, who stars in “Secretariat,” in Ladies Home Journal . . . “The alpha man is dying in film, the warrior is dying. Hello geek” — Michelle Rodriguez to Fox411.com.